decemblur

December 30, 2014

The entire month of December has gone by in such a delicious blur of food, fellowship, family, friendship, and traveling. Between packing up + cleaning our Arizona house, driving 4 days across the country to get to Florida, soaking up our family and friends for the first time in a year, celebrating Christmas, and welcoming […]

a marble rolling pin

December 8, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, one of the ladies here at the center, invited me to her house for an afternoon of bread-making. Growing up in the American culture, I never learned how to make bread. My mom used her breadmaker on special occasions, but it was never something that either of us really learned […]

thanksgiving weekend

December 4, 2014

Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions? Growing up, Thanksgiving Day was always pretty relaxed. We’d cook and eat, and play games, and eat some more, and talk, and eat some more… Then Black Friday we would go out to lunch, see a movie, and buy our Christmas tree. No crazy crowds. No meaningless shopping. Just […]

my husband

November 24, 2014

I don’t often brag about my husband, but in this case, I’m going to. If you like airplanes and training details, read on. If you don’t like hearing a proud wife talk about her husband’s cool airplane job, then you should probably stop reading. :-) We’ve arrived at the end of our training in Arizona! […]

weekend aviation expo

October 31, 2014

Last week I shared the heaviness that has been hanging around and weighing so many people down. Since then, there have been a couple surgeries, and many more prayers for Jon and Adie. The Lord has met me and so many others in those heavy places, right where we were, and held us close, reminding […]

beautiful things

October 21, 2014

It has been a heavy week around here, and really around the globe. Our world has been rocked and our hearts are hurting. As one of the executives here at the office said, “I’m ready to take that step of faith into the Jordan and follow Jesus; but I can’t find the Jordan!” Early last […]

Airplanes + Animals

September 24, 2014

It has been a busy week around the center! I definitely did not think I would have this much to do around here. It will peter off a bit after this week, but there’s still plenty of excitement around here. There are several projects that I’m working on with some of the staff here, and […]

Little House in the Desert

September 2, 2014

It’s been a whole week since we arrived in the desert, and we have survived! We have been busy settling in and getting our house set up. Our Little House in the Desert is coming along nicely, and is simple, sweet living. Arizona seems intent on busting my presuppositions about desert living. I thought it […]

Desert Roadtrip

August 26, 2014

Hi! We have finally made it to our destination in Arizona, and I finally found some time to squeeze out a blog post. I feel like I have so much to say! We landed in America a week and a half ago, and have been going full-tilt since then! A lovely family from our Wisconsin […]

Evaluation Week

October 27, 2012

We’re back from evaluation in Arizona!! If you were following the Faceook page, then you already know that we passed the evaluation!! Praise the Lord!! On our way to McNeal, we spent nine unexpected hours in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport because our flight was late (and we were bumped from standby to standby three times) […]